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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



self to literature and scientific pursuits until 

 his death, which occurred in 1847. Madame 

 Murat continued to reside upon her husband's 

 property, and during the late war suffered 

 pecuniary loss from both armies. At the res- 

 toration of peace, the Emperor Napoleon, 

 through the French minister, received informa- 

 tion of her reduced circumstances, and settled 

 on her a life annuity of 20,000 francs. By 

 right she was a princess of the French imperial 

 family, though she never assumed the title. 

 Soon after the close of the war she paid a visit 

 to France, and was most cordially received by 

 the Emperor and the members of the Murat 

 family. Madame Murat was a lady of superior 

 abilities and culture, fervent piety, and wide- 

 spread benevolence. 



Aug. 6. VON SCHRADER, ALEXANDER, Major 

 Thirty-ninth U. S. Infantry, and Brevet- 

 Colonel, a brave and gallant officer, died at 

 New Orleans, La., aged about 46 years. He 

 was a native of Germany, graduated with high 

 honors at the Military Academy at Berlin, in 

 1841, and was immediately commissioned 

 second-lieutenant in the army of the Duke of 

 Brunswick, his father being lieutenant-general 

 in the snme army. For the next twenty years 

 he served in Europe with credit, and oftentimes 

 with distinction. Coming to this country at 

 the commencement of the war, with a mind 

 thoroughly educated by his early training and 

 long service to military ideas of the highest 

 order, he at once sought a position in the army 

 of the loyal North, obtaining a commission as 

 lieutenant-colonel Seventy-fourth Ohio Vol- 

 unteers. Soon after his arrival in the field ho 

 was detached from his regiment and assigned 

 to duty as Assistant Inspector-General on the 

 staff of Major-General Thomas. At Chicka- 

 mauga, Stone Eiver, Chattanooga, Atlanta 

 campaign, and Nashville, he was conspicuous, 

 and by his energy, experience, and gallantry, 

 contributed much toward the attainment of 

 success. He was retained on his commission 

 as a volunteer in the position of Assistant In- 

 spector-General, Department of the Cumber- 

 land, with the rank of brigadier-general by 

 brevet, till the date of his appointment as major 

 in the Twenty-ninth regiment of Infantry early 

 in the present year. Soon after the reception 

 of this appointment he was relieved from duty 

 -with General Thomas, and reported for duty 

 with his regiment at New Orleans. He was 

 immediately placed on duty by General Mower 

 as Acting Assistant Inspector-General, District 

 of Louisiana, and served in that capacity until 

 a few days before his death, which was caused 

 by exposure in a climate to which he was un- 

 accustomed. 



Aug. 8. FOLSOM, Mrs. ABBY, a somewhat 

 noted advocate of antislavery and reform views, 

 well known for her addresses at the meetings 

 of the American Antislavery Society, about 

 twenty-five years ago, died in Rochester, N. Y., 

 aged 75 years. She was a native of England, 

 but had been for about thirty years a resident 



of the United States. She married, a number 

 of years ago, a Mr. Folsom, of Massachusetts, 

 and had since that time rarely appeared in 

 public. 



Aug. 9. SCRUGIIAM, WILLIAM "W., Judge 

 of the Supreme Court of New York, died at 

 Yonkers, N. Y., aged 48 years. He was a 

 native of White Plains, and studied law with 

 Judge R. S. Hart. About the time of his ad- 

 mission to the bar of Westchester County, he 

 removed to Yonkers, where he afterward re- 

 sided. He was elected a supervisor of West- 

 Chester County, and held that office for several 

 years, greatly to the benefit of the county. 

 He speedily attained a high position as an ad- 

 vocate, and his thorough preparation of his 

 cases, and his honorable bearing, made him 

 very popular in his profession. In 1859 he was 

 elected Judge of the Supreme Court by a very 

 large majority. His term expired with the year 

 1867, but had he lived, he would have been 

 reflected almost without opposition. One of 

 his colleagues, after testifying to his careful 

 scrutiny of all causes brought before him,, and 

 his well-considered decisions, said that he was 

 worthy of the record, "He was an upright 

 judge." In private life Judge Scrugham was 

 genial, witty, and agreeable as a companion, 

 and honorable and just in all the relations of 

 life. 



Aug. 10. BIOKLET, GEORGE W. F., better 

 known as "General Bickley," died in Balti- 

 more, aged 52 years. He was a native of Vir- 

 ginia. He became notorious in connection Avith 

 the order of the "Knights of the Golden 

 Circle," of which he professed to be the origi- 

 nator. He was regarded by the Government as 

 of sufficient importance to be confined as a 

 political prisoner at Fort Hamilton, Fort War- 

 ren, and elsewhere, for nearly three years 

 during the war. 



Aug. 10. GILMORE, Colonel P. A., U. S. 

 Volunteers, was accidentally drowned in Lake 

 Michigan, near Chicago. He was a native of 

 New York State, and was born in the year 

 1832. He removed to Chicago in 1854, and 

 was a ticket-agent of the Chicago and Rock 

 Island Railway when the war broke out. He 

 then threw up his position, and entered the ser- 

 vice as major of the Thirty-sixth Illinois In- 

 fantry, serving for three years with credit and 

 distinction, and acting as colonel of the regi- 

 ment during the greater portion of the time. 

 On his return to civil life the deceased assumed 

 his position in the railway company, also re- 

 ceiving the appointment of postmaster of Chi- 

 cago. 



Aug. 13. ARMSTRONG, Judge JAMES, of the 

 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, died at W 7 il- 

 liamsport, Pa., aged 74 years. He was an emi- 

 nent lawyer, and for forty years never missed 

 a court, in Ly coming County. 



Aug. 13. HEZLEP, Lieutenant JOHN K., Corps 

 of Engineers, United States Army, died of yel- 

 low fever at Foi't Morgan, Mobile Bay, aged 

 24 years. He was a native of Ohio, but ap- 



